Data Science and AI Educators' Programme: Cohort Call Seven notes
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###### tags: `cohort-call-7` `DS-AI-Educators'-Programme`

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- **Call time and day**: Wednesday 21 June 2023, 13:30 - 15:00 (GMT+1)
- **Meeting host**: Ayesha
- **Meeting facilitator**:
- **Github repo**: [DS and AI Educators' Programme GitHub](https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/ds-ai-educators-programme)

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## CC7: Embedding ethics into teaching: let's get practical, a case study
### Agenda

| Agenda | Speaker | Time |
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| Intro and overview | Ayesha | 13:30 - 13:40 |
| Embedding ethics into teaching: a case study | Dr Richard Clegg, QMUL </br> Dr Mona Jaber, QMUL </br> Dr Janis Wong, The Alan Turing Institute | 13:40 - 14:35 |
| Break-out room activity | | 14:35 - 14:50 |
| Wrap-up & Q&A | Ayesha | 14:50 - 15:00 |

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## Intro and housekeeping
### Roll call question :loudspeaker:

- Do you teach ethics? What does this look like in practice?

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## Feedback and Q&A

### Questions from participants :question:

Place your questions here and we will pick these up in the session :smile_cat:

- FAT has been an acronym I have heard around ML ethics (and generally on IT ethics), is it Fair, are we being Accountable, are we being Transparent? Have others heard this or any other acronyms?
- Re: FAT – One of the conferences is ACM FAccT (formerly FAT) that looks at AI/ML ethics but it is a very broad umbrella in terms of what is being published. I believe historically there is not so much done on education and teaching pedagogy https://facctconference.org/2023/
- Do you look into the procurement of the hardware required?
- Is there such a things as truly anonymous data, esp when you start combining data sets?Did your students in China feel free to speak on privacy and censorship given the track record of the Chinese state?
- Did your students in China feel free to speak on privacy and censorship given the track record of the Chinese state?
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### Useful Links/references :bookmark_tabs:

**Ethics Call 1**
- [Give your link a title in square brackets](put the url in round brackets)
- [Data Ethics case studies](https://www.scu.edu/media/ethics-center/technology-ethics/IntroToDataEthics.pdf)
- [Turing Commons overview](https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/research-projects/turing-commons)
- [The Turing Commons](https://alan-turing-institute.github.io/turing-commons/)
- [The Cartoon Introduction to Digital Ethics Comic](https://edps.europa.eu/comic-book_en)
- [Model Cards for Model Reporting](https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.03993)
- https://www.moralmachine.net/
- [One paper about Ethics of AI in Education](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40593-021-00239-1)
- [Keeping the Dream Alive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfGM680PZi4) In this talk I mostly talk about Critical EdTech but there are a lot of overlapping considerations
- [QAA Education for Sutainable Development Guidance](https://www.qaa.ac.uk/the-quality-code/education-for-sustainable-development)

**Ethics Call 2**
- [Give your link a title in square brackets](put the url in round brackets)
- [FAccT: AI/ML ethics conferencew](https://facctconference.org/2023/)
- [Tech ethics curricula examples](https://cfiesler.medium.com/tech-ethics-curricula-a-collection-of-syllabi-3eedfb76be18)
- [CEP conference](https://cepconference.webspace.durham.ac.uk/)
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## Breakout activity :speaking_head_in_silhouette:

### Breakout room discussions

### Room 1

1. How could you begin to incoporate - or strengthen existing teaching of - ethics, both within your own teaching practice and institute more widely?
- Integrate into the course material rather than teaching ethics as a "bolt-on"
- Discussing data storage best practice--who has access, when, how; what information should be limited and how
- Direct students to university/school ethics office and policy
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2. What are the challenges, as you see them, of incoporating ethics teaching into your practice or institute?
- no centralised way
- different kinds of data in different fields
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3. Together, discuss ways in which you might start to overcome these challenges. You may wish to share good practice tips, case studies or examples you have seen that could be of use.
- Create an ethics workflow for yourself!
- Continuous monitoring of ethical considerations after ethics approval gained
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### Room 2

1. How could you begin to incoporate - or strengthen existing teaching of - ethics, both within your own teaching practice and institute more widely?
- None in my own module, but there is a dedicated Ethics module within the MSc course, however this is not compulsory. This could be a useful resource for me to improve my OWN knowledge, and then try and illustrate some of the isssues in the context of the material I teach.
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2. What are the challenges, as you see them, of incoporating ethics teaching into your practice or institute?
- Mostly lack of time to improve my own knowledge, and to revise my teaching to incorporate it...
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3. Together, discuss ways in which you might start to overcome these challenges. You may wish to share good practice tips, case studies or examples you have seen that could be of use.
- Take it step by step, add small amount of content first year, gradually increase
- Use case studies to illustrate importance
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### Room 3

1. How could you begin to incoporate - or strengthen existing teaching of - ethics, both within your own teaching practice and institute more widely?
- No dedicated hours specifically on ethics; but I have shared issues that is highlighted in the media/news.
- Will be teaching Business, Statistics, Ethics
- Ethics when it comes to data visualisation is a common topic
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### Room 4

1. How could you begin to incoporate - or strengthen existing teaching of - ethics, both within your own teaching practice and institute more widely?
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- Principles of Fairness Accountability and Transparency seem basic to what we are doing.
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- ML/Data science are hard to find good examples for embedding ethics
- Can embedding ethics become wider -- across a program so modules build on each other.
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### Room 7

1. How could you begin to incoporate - or strengthen existing teaching of - ethics, both within your own teaching practice and institute more widely?
- Use examples or case studies to show the impact of ethics in the work.
- Bring in relevant topics related to society and environment when introducing new skills etc.
- Debate can be a good exercise. Perhaps argue from the point of view of different personas in terms of how they are impacted by the system.
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2. What are the challenges, as you see them, of incoporating ethics teaching into your practice or institute?
- Getting other people to realise that it's an important topic - especially if we want it to be embedded across a curriculum.
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